Combination lamp attachment.



No. 745,111. PATENTED 110v 24, 1903. J. a; G. 0. W. MAGRUDER.COMBINATION LAMP ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented November 24 1903;.

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JULIAN MAGRUDER, OF POOLESVILLE, MARYLAND, AND GEORGE MAGRUDER, OFTENNALLYTOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COMBBNATION LAM P ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,111, dated November24, 1903.

Application filed February 3, 1903. Serial No. 141,666. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JULIAN MAGRUDER, residing at Poolesville,Montgomery county, State of Maryland, and GEORGE G. W. MA- GRUDER,residing at Tennallytown, District of Columbia, citizens of the UnitedStates, haveinvented a new and useful Combination Lamp Attachment, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a combination lamp attachment.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive,and efficient device of great strength and durability adapted to bereadily applied to an ordinary lamp and capable of forming a support forholding the burner of the lamp while the latter is being filled.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter having a match safe or holder and forming a shade for the eyeswhile reading and adapted at the same time to operate as a reflector forthrowing the light.

Another object of the invention is to provide a lamp attachment having acombined shade and reflector adapted to have printed or otherwiseapplied to it a calendar, rule, and various other matter interesting anduseful.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed outin the claims hereto appended, it being understood that changes in theform, proportion, and minor details of construction within the scope ofthe claims may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificingany of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a lamp attachmentconstructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to alamp and illustrating the manner of supporting a burner. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the devicedetached. Fig. i is a detail View, partly in section, illustrating themanner ofengaging the neck of a lamp.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawlugs.

1 1 designate a pair of approximately circular clamping-jaws adapted toembrace and engage the neck 2 of a lamp 3 and having flattened outerportions adapted to lie within a groove or corrugation 4, with which theneck of the lamp is usually provided. The flattened engaging portions 5of the jaws are extended and curved outward, as clearly shown in Figs. 1and 3, to form a flaring mouth or entrance to facilitate engaging thejaws with the neck of a lamp.

The jaws are hingedly connected at their inner ends by means of a link6, through which the spring-wire, of which the jaws are constructed,passes, and the said jaws are con-.

nected with a pair of outwardly-diverging arms 7, forming'a broadsupport adjacent to the neck of the lamp to receive the burner 8 forsupporting the same while the lamp is being filled. The burner restsupon the arms 7, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1, and it is held thereon bymeans of an upright shade-support 9. The arms 7, which diverge from theneck of the lamp when the device is applied thereto, also serve ashandles for opening the jaws in placing the device on a lamp and inremoving it therefrom.

The jaws, the arms, and the shade-holder are constructed fromspring-wire or similar material and consist of a single piece of thesame, which is coiled at the center to form a combined spring coil andclamp 10. The coil 10, which is arranged at the top of the shadeholder,is disposed in an upright position and is adapted to receive a plate orcard 11 between'its coils, whereby the same is supported in an uprightposition in front of the light to form either a shade or a reflector.The resilient material is then extended to form inclined sides toprovide the upright holder for the combined shade and reflector. Thewire is preferably coiled at the base of the upright holder to formopposite eyes 12 and 13 to receive a combined guide and supporting-rod14. The wire is then bent to form the arms and the jaws. The combinedguide and supporting-wire 14, which is disposed transversely of theouter portion of the device at the base of the upright holder, has oneend bent to form an eye 15, which is linked into the adjacent eye 12,and its other end is extended through the eye 13 to permit the same toslide on it when the arms 7 are compressed for opening the jaws." Theguide prevents the jaws from twisting excessively in the link whilemanipulating the device to place the same on and remove it from a lamp,and it is also adapted to receive a match box or holder 16.- The matchbox or holder 16, which may be of any desired construction, is designedto be of a sufficient size to hold six or eight matches to be used incase of emergency to relight the lamp while it is being carried shouldit become accidentally extinguished; but the match safe or box may bemade of any desired size, as will be readily understood. The match boxor safe is provided at its front with a suitable strikingsurface, and ithas an eye or clip 17 at the top for engaging the combined guide andsupporting-rod, whereby the said match box or safe is hinged to theattachment. When the match box or holder is provided at the top, asillustrated in Fig. 3, with a spring-clip, it may be readily connectedto and removed from the attachment, if desired.

The plate or card 11, which may be constructed of any suitable material,is designed to be provided on its exterior with a calendar and on itsinner face with a rule and various other matter which may be found to beuseful, and the card or plate is readily removable to permit the rule tobe used. The

card or plate may have a glazed inner face or be otherwise constructedto form a reflector, or a separate plate or piece may be applied eitherto the holder 9 or to the plate or card 11 when it is desired to form areflector.

It will be seen that the lamp attachment is exceedingly simple andinexpensive in construction, thatit may be easily man ufactured, andthat it is adapted to be readily applied to and removed from a lamp ofthe ordinary construction. Furthermore, it will be clear that the deviceis adapted to support the burner of a lamp While the latter is beingfilled, and that it serves both as a shade and as a reflector, and thatit is also adapted to support a number of matches within convenientreach to enable a lamp to be quickly relighted should it becomeaccidentally extinguished. Furthermore, the combined shade and reflectoris detachably held in position to permit it to be removed for separateuse, and it may bediscarded when it is desired to apply a new card orplate to the device.

What we claim is- 1. Alamp attachment provided with means for detachablyengaging a lamp, and having a combined burner-support and shade-holder,the shade-holder being arranged to form a stop for retaining a burner onthe holder, and a shade supported by the holder, substantially asdescribed.

2. A lamp attachment provided with means 4. A lamp attachment providedwith means for securing it to a lamp, and having a combinedburner-support and shade-holder, the holder being arranged to form astop to retain a burner on the support, and a shade supported by theholder, substantially as described.

5. A lamp attachment provided with a pair of jaws for clamping the neckof a lamp, and provided with a combined burner-support and shade-holder,said burner-support and shade-holder also forming means for operatingthe jaws, the holder forming a stop to retain a burner on the support,and a shade supported by the holder, substantially as described.

6. A lamp attachment comprising a pair of jaws for engaging a lampadjacent to the burner, and a combined burner-support and shade-holderhaving compressible horizontal and upper portions adapted to operate thejaws, the upright portion being arranged to form a stop for retainingthe burner on the horizontal portion, and a shade supported by theupright portion, substantially as described.

7. A lamp attachment comprisingapair of jaws for engaging a lamp, acombined burnersupport and shadeholder adapted to be compressed foropening the jaws, a combined guide and supportingrod carried by theburner support and shade holder and a match-box carried by the rod,substantially as described.

8. A lamp attachment comprising a pair of jaws for engaging a lamp,approximately horizontal arms extending from the jaws and forming aburner-support and adapted to be compressed to open the jaws, and anupright shade-holder extending from the arms and arranged to retain aburner thereon, substantially as described.

9. A lamp attachment comprising a lampengaging device, arms extendingoutward therefrom and forming a burner-support, and an uprightshade-holder extending from the outer portions of the arms and arrangedto retain a burner thereon, substantially as described.

lO. A lamp attachment comprising a pair of jaws for engaging a lamp,arms diverging therefrom and forming a bu rner-support, and

an upright shade-holder extending from the outer portions of the armsand provided at the top with a combined clamping and spring coilarranged to receive and engage a plate or card, substantially asdescribed.

11. A lamp attachment comprising lampengaging jaws, arms divergingtherefromand forming a burner-support, an upright holder extending fromthe outer portions of the arms and forming a stop for retaining a burneron the support, and a combined guide and supporting-rod connected withone of the arms and slidable on the other, substantially as described.

12. Alamp attach mcnt comprising a pair of jaws, arms extending from thejaws and forming a burner support, an upright shadeholder connected withthe arms and forming a stop for retaining a burner on the support,

a combined guide and supporting-rod con-' nected with one of the armsand slidable on the other and a match box or holder suspended from therod, substantially as described.

18. Alamp attachment comprising a pair of jaws, arms extending from thejaws, an upright holder connected at opposite sides with the outer endsof the arms and provided thereat with eyes, said upright holder forminga stop for retaining a burner on the arms, a link embracing theinnerends of the arms, and a rod connected with one of the eyes and slidablein the other, substantially as described.

14. A lam-p attachment comprising a pair of approximately semicircularjaws having flattened engaging front portions to fit the groove orcorrugation of the neck of a lamp, a combined burner-support andshade-holder, the shade-holder forming a stop for retaining a burner onthe support, and a shade supported by the holder, substantially asdescribed.

15. Alamp attachment comprising a pair of jaws, arms diverging from thejaws and forming a burner-support, a holder extending upward from thearms and having a coil at the top and forming a stop for retaining aburner on the support, a plate or card arranged in the coil to form acombined shade and refilector, a rod connecting the arms at the base ofthe holder, and a match-receptacle carried by the rod, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

JULIAN MAGRUDER. GEORGE O. W. MAGRUDER. Witnesses for Julian Magruder:

HORACE W. Fox, P. H. TUCKER. WVitnesses for George G. W. Magruder:

JOHN H. Srecnas, FLORENCE E. WALTER".

